Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246
Belongs to Anodontophora according to C. T. Trechmann 1917
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora telleri, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora pappi, Myacites depressus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites faba, Myacites radiatus, Myacites grandis, Myacites obtusus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites musculoides
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otamita Stream (Bed "C"), which is in a Carnian marine shale in New Zealand
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Zealand (1 collection), Peru (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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